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Old Hollywood

This A list pint sized actor used to run an acting school.

Much like James Franco he used it to find women to sleep with and would often ask them for money after they were hooked on the actor.

He was always out of money.

Mickey Rooney

MRSE Mickey Rooney School of Entertainment

On December 31, 1961, Rooney appeared on television’s What’s My Line and mentioned that he had already started enrolling students in the MRSE (Mickey Rooney School of Entertainment). His school venture never came to fruition. This was a period of professional distress for Rooney; as a childhood friend, director Richard Quine put it: “Let’s face it. It wasn’t all that easy to find roles for a 5-foot-3 man who’d passed the age of Andy Hardy.” In 1962, his debts had forced him into filing for bankruptcy.


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